STEVEN DANA WOLFF, M.D.PHD
Radiology at 77 St, New York, NY

6618605, Sep 9, 2003

Sep 8, 1999

09/391965

Steven D. Wolff - New York NY
Glenn S. Slavin - Rockville MD
Thomas K. F. Foo - Rockville MD

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

A61B 5055

600410, 324306, 324307, 324309, 600419

A method and apparatus is disclosed for MR perfusion acquisition using a notched RF saturation pulse. In acquiring such MR data, a volume of slice locations is selected in which MR data is to be acquired. Each given slice is prepared with a notched RF saturation pulse which has a stop-band between a pair of pass-bands. The stop-band is designed to not affect the spins in the next slice in which MR data is to be acquired thereby effectively increasing the TI and increasing SNR and contrast simultaneously. Since the notched saturation pulse saturates all the spins outside of the notched stop-band, the blood in the ventricular chamber is effectively saturated so that the resulting perfusion images have blood pool suppression. Additionally, the use of a 90° presaturation RF pulse provides a high level of immunity to the effects of arrhythmias or other variations in the patients heart rate. In order to keep the stop-band, or the notch, as wide as possible to overlap the boundaries of each slice location, it is preferable to interleave the acquisition of slice locations.

6412664, Jul 2, 2002

Aug 17, 2000

09/640455

Floyd Wolff - Boca Raton FL 33496
Steven Wolff - New York NY 10021

B65D 3700

222211, 2224641, 222564, 222547, 222556, 220259, 220837, 215235

A cap for use in dispensing viscous liquids from containers without the accompaniment of lower viscosity liquid present in the container. The cap has a top portion with an outside surface and an inside surface and an elongated conduit formed at a pre-determined angle. The elongated conduit has an outlet and an inlet. The outlet is situated either eccentrically or concentrically on the outside surface of the top portion such that at least one point on the circumference of the top portion is greater than 10 millimeters from the edge of the inlet.

6577887, Jun 10, 2003

Mar 13, 2001

09/804938

Floyd Wolff - Boca Raton FL 33496
Steven Wolff - New York NY 10021

A61B 505

600411, 600420, 600422

The apparatus and method alters the intravenous delivery of pharmaceuticals to enhance imaging of the vasculature of an animal. The apparatus includes a pressure-inducing component that is sized to attach circumferentially to an extremity of an animal thereby impeding arterial blood flow causing said pharmaceuticals to remain at selected levels within the vasculature.

2005024, Nov 3, 2005

Apr 29, 2004

10/709365

Steven Wolff - New York NY, US
Thomas Foo - Baltimore MD, US

GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, LLC - Waukesha WI

A61B005/05

600410000

A method of generating a magnetic resonance image is provided, comprising subjecting a subject to a magnetic field. The subject comprised of a first tissue a second tissue and a third tissue. The method generates a first pulse sequence at a first TI time and generates a first image after the first pulse sequence. The first image has a first image first tissue magnitude, a first image second tissue magnitude, and a first image third tissue magnitude. The method then generates a second pulse sequence at a second TI time and generates a second image after the second pulse sequence. The second image has a second image first tissue magnitude, a second image second tissue magnitude, and a second image third tissue magnitude. Finally, the method generates a resultant image by combining the first image and the second image. The first image first tissue magnitude and the second image first tissue magnitude combine to form a positive resultant first tissue magnitude. The first image third tissue magnitude and the second image third tissue magnitude combine to form a negative resultant image third tissue magnitude.

2013006, Mar 14, 2013

Sep 11, 2011

13/229742

Steven D. Wolff - New York NY, US

NEOSOFT, LLC - Pewaukee WI

A61B 5/00

600561

Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and methods for imaging-assisted determination of pressure gradient of blood flow across a valve orifice in a cardiovascular circuit without the use of velocity data measured at the valve orifice. An embodiment of the methods comprise creating an image of a valve orifice, creating a planimeter slice from the image of the valve orifice including a trace of the perimeter of the valve orifice, determining the valve orifice area by determining the area contained within the trace, determining the instantaneous flow rate through the valve orifice based on bulk flow data away from the valve, and determining the instantaneous pressure gradient across the valve orifice from the valve orifice area and the instantaneous flow rate.

6144200, Nov 7, 2000

Feb 20, 1998

9/027519

Frederick H. Epstein - Gaithersburg MD
Steven D. Wolff - New York NY

General Electric Company - Milwaukee WI

G01V 300

324306

A method is disclosed to reconstruct multiphase MR images that accurately depict the entire cardiac cycle. A segmented, echo-planar imaging (EPI) pulse sequence is used to acquire data continuously during each cardiac cycle. Images are retrospectively reconstructed by selecting views from each heartbeat based on cardiac phase.

2006010, May 11, 2006

Nov 2, 2004

10/904272

Ajit Shankaranarayanan - Mountain View CA, US
Andres Carrillo - Menlo Park CA, US
Steven Wolff - New York NY, US
Jean Brittain - Menlo Park CA, US

A61B 5/05

600410000

A system and method for MR imaging is disclosed that includes displaying a series of MR images of an ROI in real-time and localizing a slice within the ROI. The method also includes using a parallel imaging technique to acquire gated MR data from the localized slice and reconstructing a prescribed fixed number of gated MR images of the localized slice.

7953469, May 31, 2011

Feb 1, 2008

12/024844

Ajit Shankaranarayanan - Mountain View CA, US
Andres Carrillo - Menlo Park CA, US
Steven D. Wolff - New York NY, US
Jean Helen Brittain - Menlo Park CA, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

A61B 5/05

600410, 600407, 600413

A system and method for MR imaging is disclosed that includes displaying a series of MR images of an ROI in real-time and localizing a slice within the ROI. The method also includes using a parallel imaging technique to acquire gated MR data from the localized slice and reconstructing a prescribed fixed number of gated MR images of the localized slice.